I am forty one years old. I quite like being this age. I don’t really understand these ageing celebrities who are desperately trying to cling to their youth. I understand they must feel threatened by the prospect of not getting the attention they once used to, but the ones who make themselves look …
Each week I get an email from each of my sons parent class reps to remind all the parents of things that need to be done during the coming week. I cherish these emails because with four kids if I’m not careful things slip through the cracks. Like the ONE …
With forty hundred children and Rob burning the candle at both ends, we don’t often get a friday night to ourselves. That plus the fact that at the end of the week the last thing either of us want to do is anything that doesn’t involve a sofa and TV …
It was Holly’s 11th birthday last week. With four kids I’ve now got the birthday party prep thing pretty sorted, given I seem to always have a child who’s about to have one. The cake however is always my undoing. When we lived in London, I wouldn’t have dreamt of …
Yesterday Rob and I came home from an amazing child-free five days away in Noosa. Rob has a really high stress job and works ridiculous hours so the past few months have meant he’s hardly around on week days and weekends with four kids are anything but relaxing. So my …
Each saturday two of my boys have swimming lessons and my daughter has gymnastics at the same time, so Rob and I usually take turns doing one or the other. That’s actually a lie, I have never done the swimming shift because Holly’s gymnastics happens to be right next door …
On friday I forgot to pick Jude up from preschool. Forgot. Totally, totally, totally forgot. It was a day out of the norm, the other three kids were at a day of school holiday activities and I was picking up two extra kids and bringing them home with me too. …
I do a lot of exercise. Not surprisingly my exercises of choice do not involve an enormous amount of coordination. Running and CrossFit. Because I am not very coordinated. CrossFit is about as sophisticated as I will ever get because I’m pretty accident prone. Am quite sure the dry cleaner …
I get asked this all the time. I think it’s because people are intrigued by other people who manage to get through life without drinking. Maybe not strangely enough, the person who asks me usually has a drink in their hand. The subject will come up when I decline a drink …
A really cool thing happened to me today. I was at CrossFit just doing my own thing and noticed someone there I hadn’t seen before. She ended up being my partner for a particular workout we were doing and we got chatting. She came right out and asked me if …
People who slam social media are weirdo’s in my mind. Putting my blog aside, which is a bit of fun and gives me a voice .. plus free goodies from time to time – social media has brought me wonderful gifts. Friendship. Many of my closest friends are people I’ve …
Yesterday I was in David Jones and stumbled into this. So I guess it must be christmas soon? Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t we still have Father’s Day, Halloween & Melbourne Cup merchandising to totally exploit before the big fat bearded one visits? Obviously nobody was shopping in …
Bloody Minecraft. As we speak my three sons’ excitement is at fever pitch because they’ve worked out how to make red sheep. Apparently this is almost as exciting as when they learnt how to make a cow waterfall. We have many ups and downs in our house in relation to Minecraft …
About a week ago Luca came up to me and said “Mum, what’s this” and then handed me a pocket knife. Rob has had it for years and like most of his gadgets it never gets used, instead it’s just shipped around the world whenever we move and it ends up …
I have been the lamest blogger on the planet. Because I’ve been a bit of a misery guts and preoccupied with being injured and not running, I’ve completely neglected my blog. I don’t think in my blog’s life I’ve ever gone this long without posting something. I’ve had nearly 8 …